The Great Brain Quotes

“And just to make sure, I will personally give two black eyes and a bloody nose to anybody who does tell.”
― John D. Fitzgerald, The Great Brain

“said. “And my pa said to thank you for him. My ma said God bless you and she would pray for you. Ain’t no way for me to say what I feel inside for you making me so I’m not useless anymore. I guess I’ll just have to thank you in my prayers and ask God to bless you too.”
― John D. Fitzgerald, The Great Brain

“Abie is dead,” she said as tears toppled down her cheeks. “Three times he fell carrying his cross, just as Christ did, and we were too blind to see. May God have mercy on us.”
― John D. Fitzgerald, The Great Brain

“Papa laid aside a book he was reading. “He gets it from his father,” Papa said. “His father is always complaining about immigrants coming to this country and taking jobs away from Americans.” “But Sammy’s grandfather was an immigrant,” Tom said. “When you come right down to it,” Papa said, “we are all immigrants except the Indians. What men like Mr. Leeds fail to understand is that it is the mingling of the different cultures, talents, and know-how of the different nationalities which will one day make this the greatest nation on earth. All intolerant persons must have somebody or something to hate. Mr. Leeds is an intolerant person who hates immigrants.”
― John D. Fitzgerald, The Great Brain

“The whiskey rules it out.”
― John D. Fitzgerald, The Great Brain

“Jimmie was in the kitchen where his mother was preparing breakfast for her boarders”
― John D. Fitzgerald, The Great Brain

“that boy could talk his way around anything.”
― John D. Fitzgerald, The Great Brain